Last movie you watched 2025

[Westy]

Today I watched Mickey 17 on Max, and found it pretty disappointing. g.

Yeah I stopped after 30 minutes I think. Also don't go for Robert Patterson much as an actor.

 

[Hobbit]

Yeah I stopped after 30 minutes I think. Also don't go for Robert Patterson much as an actor.

I have this movie, but humour is a personal thing... haven't worked up enough interest to watch yet, as well as having Patterson issues (He didn't really act in The Batman, did he? ) Loved the book, though.

 

[Hobbit]

Here I have been watching the Connery James Bonds in 4K. Generally very good, there are moments when the imagery is stunning, but others where the film shows its limitations of the age and things are a little ropy.

 

[Westy]

Here I have been watching the Connery James Bonds in 4K. Generally very good, there are moments when the imagery is stunning, but others where the film shows its limitations of the age and things are a little ropy.


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The best Bond! I should re-watch again too.

 

[Randy M.]

Is a recorded stage play a movie? Oh, well ...

Hamilton (2020; Disney+) dir. Thomas Kail; starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Sou, Leslie Odom Jr.

Watched July 4, just because. One of the most energetic plays I've ever seen. Excellent performances by Miranda as Hamilton; Sou as Eliza Schuyler, Hamilton's wife; Odom as Aaron Burr, Renee Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler, and a really energetic performance by Daveed Diggs as, first, the Marquis de Lafayette and later as Thomas Jefferson. Much humor was supplied by Jonathan Groff as King George III.

I'm hazy on historical details, but this seems to hit the high points and as a potential nudge to students to learn more, looks effective.

 

[blailock]

Today I watched Mickey 17 on Max, and found it pretty disappointing. It tries to be science fiction humor, which is a hard target to hit. While some of the situational humor early in the movie was good, it began to fall down somewhere in the middle. It went too over the top. Which brings up another point, this movie is too long. It is about two hours and twenty minutes, and probably should have been less than two hours.

On the positive side, the special effects were pretty good. The lived-in look of the spaceships and equipment seemed realistic. The creepers were well done, and were a delightfully different life form, while still being adorable and scary at the same time. The movie ends well, in spite of a potentially negative false ending.

I agree with this whole heartedly. I thought Pattinson did a terrible job playing "book character" Mickey. He was too silly and weird. On the flip side, the rest of my family thought it was really good. None of them had read the book.

 

[pogopossum]

News of the World.
Starring Tom Hanks. 2020
A dense,well acted western, it puts a world weary former Confederate soldier saving a young girl whose birth parents were killed by Kiowa and was adopted by them. She speaks almost no other language. US cavalry killed the Kiowa and Hanks (Kyle Kidd) is impressed into the duty of taking her 400 miles to her aunt's. Kidd is a reader, getting paid to read current news to illiterate cowboys and miners.
It is not surprising that the journey is bloody and stressful. A focus is the growing attachment of the extremely well acted girl (played by Helena Zengel) to Kidd.
Dour but extremely well done in what seems to be a rawer and more violent west than is usually presented.
273 critics gave it 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.

 

[ArtNJ]

I agree with this whole heartedly. I thought Pattinson did a terrible job playing "book character" Mickey. He was too silly and weird. On the flip side, the rest of my family thought it was really good. None of them had read the book.

I watched about 45 minutes and put it aside. Then whatever premium channel was like haha that was a weekend freebie only and I was like . . . um, ok, I was torn between watching and aimlessly surfing the net anyway.

For someone that didn't read the book, it wasn't actually bad, just underwhelming. And yes, Pattinson was too . . . something.

 

[ArtNJ]

Re: Superman. I guess by the standards of a Superman movie, it was pretty good? But also bad or at least held back from truly flying by a number of issue ranging from Lex Luthor's usual unbelievable idiotic and over the top motivations to missed opportunities galore. Just one example of a random missed opportunity . . . Superman doesn't like Krypto, thinks he is a bad dumb dog. Rather than true redemption and man-dog bonding, Superman gets Krypto to do something useful by appealing to his destructive instincts. And then at the end of the movie we learn that Supergirl is an alien-party hopping stoner girl, and Krypto is her dog. Random rather than funny. Very little issue, but there are a lot of these, some of them more substantive.

My wife saw some value in the superficial unintended (it was written prior to the war) allegory to Israel/Hamas. I failed to see how that adds the smallest shred of value entertainment wise. Or in any respect really.

I think its like 7.7 at IMDB, but it was a 6/6.5 for me.

 

[blailock]

I watched The Assessment on Hulu. It's got a sci fi setting, kind of dystopian. The couple is getting an in person assessment of whether they will be approved to have a child. It's very weird, but I enjoyed it.

 

[Ropie]

I watched a couple of loosely 'horror' films on Prime recently: Strange Darling and Vivarium.

The former is about a serial killer and the story is edited and re-ordered to twist the viewer's perception of what is actually happening. It's stylish and pretty gory but it soon becomes clear what's going on and then it becomes a standard thriller really.

The latter is a bit like Eraserhead set in an inescapable and nightmarish suburbia. On paper it sounds absolutely great and the sets are very nicely designed. I didn't particularly enjoy the film though because the main characters are very annoying and behave absolutely illogically, and the story just drifts rather than developing its ideas.

 

[Ubergeek]

NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS ( Aldo Lado )
On PRIME UK

My first viewing of this infamous video nasty .

The sexual assaults were difficult to watch and contrasted with a dinner party and views of the landscape the train travelled through.

Storyline became contrived however glad I finally saw it .

 

[Hobbit]

Watched The Amateur.

Not bad. Surprised to see the new Lois Lane in it - 2 movies out at the same time.
Is decidedly old-school, and increasingly implausible, but a good watch for me.

Rami Malik has a risk of becoming typecast in his acting of geeky, awkward, introverted characters, though.

 

[blailock]

Watched The Amateur.

Not bad. Surprised to see the new Lois Lane in it - 2 movies out at the same time.
Is decidedly old-school, and increasingly implausible, but a good watch for me.

Rami Malik has a risk of becoming typecast in his acting of geeky, awkward, introverted characters, though.


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I watched this recently, too. I thought it was pretty good. Not great, but I was entertained.

 

[Hobbit]

Went to see Fantastic 4: First Steps the other day.

Liked the 1960's vibe but overall, strangely bland. Starts really well but then like a Netflix series slows down badly in the middle. A better Marvel film than most lately, but not the rip-roaring success I was hoping for. And I was surprised to think that I enjoyed the new Superman more, even though it had its own issues.

 

[Ubergeek]

28 YEARS LATER ( Danny Boyle ) in local movie theatre .

Well made , direction , photography and actors all top .

However , personally feel I've had enough of zombies .

 

[Raf]

Watched the new "War of the Worlds" last night. Starring Ice Cube and Eva Longoria. Kind of a new spin on the story with Ice Cube as a Department of Homeland Security Analyst with the ability to monitor and track anyone almost any time via drones, satellites, city cameras, cell phones etc. That in and of itself is kind if scary if you think about it.

The entire show plays out with Ice Cube manipulating data and camera feeds to various military and intelligence channels while at the same time, trying to save his children from the alien invasion. Who are on earth to steal data. Really edge of your seat stuff with a great ending. Good movie!

 

[oberon55]

I just finished rewatching Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960). It starts with one of the best witch executions ever filmed. I watched it on The Last Drive In on Shudder and it's host Joe Bob Briggs claimed that it was the start of modern horror. He said you could divide horror into 2 groups. One before Black Sunday and one after Black Sunday.

I don't know if all that is true but it has to be one of the best directorial debuts ever. I highly recommend it to any horror fan who has not seen it. The other Bava film i would say watch is Black Sabbath. Both are great examples of 1960s Italian horror.

 

[Hobbit]

I don't know if all that is true but it has to be one of the best directorial debuts ever. I highly recommend it to any horror fan who has not seen it. The other Bava film i would say watch is Black Sabbath. Both are great examples of 1960s Italian horror.

Watched Black Sabbath the other week. Unsettling, isn't it? Can't beat a bit of Boris Karloff, though!

 

[oberon55]

Watched Black Sabbath the other week. Unsettling, isn't it? Can't beat a bit of Boris Karloff, though!

I actually like Black Sabbath better than Black Sunday. I was a kid when i saw it and The Drop of Water scared me as bad as any movie I ever saw. The Wurdulak was a good take on the vampire. The scene "Mama, I'm cold" was chilling.